Faculty

Allyson Weiner-Sawyer, Studio Owner & Instructor
A lifelong dancer Ally has a Musical Theatre degree from Elmira. She is involved in dance in many ways in ...

Jessica Trout-Haney
Jessica Trout-Haney has taught tap at The Dance Collective since 2015. She received her B.A. and B.S. at the University ...

Teresa Urnezis, Ballet
Teresa Urnezis is an experienced ballet teacher with over 30 years of dedicated service in the field. She holds a ...

Michael Cusumano
Michael Cusumano grew up in Long Island New York. He began dancing at the age of 6. At the age ...

Jenn Sargent
Jenn Sargent grew up in New York City where she had the privilege of dancing with the Children’s Ballet Theater ...

Rachel Burcham
Rachel is a professional dancer, choreographer, and certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach passionate about holistic wellness through the arts. After ...

Hannah O’Neil
Hannah has danced for 18 years and found her way back to dance through The Dance Collective this past year! ...

Doreen Keith
Doreen Keith has been a dance instructor for over 35 years. She has taught ballet, tap, jazz & acrobatics. Her ...

Avery Lemire
Avery has been dancing for 13 years. She joined TDC in 2021 and has loved being apart of the TDC ...

Evie Cloud
From the time Evie started teaching she has fallen in love with it. Evie started dancing at the dance collective ...

Keelei Adams
Keelei has been a dancer since she was 4 years old. She has trained in numerous styles of dance over ...
Assistant Faculty

Camrynn Lockwood
Camrynn has been dancing for 9 years. She has competed in dance competitions since 2016, and has won first place ...

Quinn Chartier
Quinn joined TDC in 2019 and she has been dancing for around 5 years. She will be graduating from Hartford ...

Taylor Lau
Taylor started dancing in 2021, and enjoys the supportive community that the studio offers. Taylor loves getting the opportunity to ...

Lacey Whitcomb
Lacey has been dancing almost her whole life at TDC given she started at three years old. Lacey is currently ...

Danill Sjostrom
From the moment Danill arrived from Russia at age three to join his forever family, he wanted to dance. He ...